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" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "

Paul G. Tremblay

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" When you trust your subconscious enough to put something in a story and then figure out why it really needed to be there later, when that works out, aye, that's the stuff. "

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" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "

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" In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. "

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" After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to emerge from there. You will always have those negative thoughts as a writer, but you can't let them take over. If you let them take over, those are the real page killers. "

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" The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "

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" I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure. "

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" I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases. "

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" Getting into graduate school was pure luck. "

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" I don't consciously sit down thinking I'm blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving the needs of the particular story on which I'm working. "

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" I won't call 'Cabin' an anti-home invasion story, because that's not exactly true, but the home-invasion subgenre is one I generally don't gravitate toward as a reader or film viewer. "

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" When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. "

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" There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. "

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" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "

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" I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "

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" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "

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" So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why. "

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" The response to 'A Head Full of Ghosts' has been amazing and thrilling. I'd be lying if I said I don't feel a little extra pressure trying to follow it up. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "

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" What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. "

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" Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit. "

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" As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return. "

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" I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters. "

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" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "

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" The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating. "

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" I was definitely a child of the '80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of TV. HBO would show the same movies over and over again, so I'd watch the same movies over and over again. "

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" Math was always my best subject growing up. "

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" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "

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" If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize. "

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" 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. "

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" Crime, horror, and satire each aim to reveal an ugly or uncomfortable truth: one that, after the reveal, will ensure we'll never be the same. The big difference between those genres being the effect they create. "

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